Facts about SCRABBLE

In 1938, architect Alfred Masher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented call Lexika. The two games had the same set of letter tiles, whose distributions and point values Butts worked out meticulously performing a frequency analys of letters from various sources including, The New York Times.
The new game, which he called "Criss-Crosswords", added the 15-by-15 game board and the crossword-style game play.
He manufactured a few sets himself, but was not successful in selling the game to any major gam manufacturers of the day.
JW Spears began selling the game in Australia and the UK on January 19, 1955.
"Scrabble", a real word which means "to scratch frantically",]English-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution:

• 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
• 1 point. E x12, A x9, I x9, O x8, N x6, R x6, T x6, L x4, S x4, U x4
• 2 points. D x4, G x3
• 3 points. B x2, C x2, M x2, P x2
• 4 points. F x2, H x2, V x2, W x2, Y x2
• 5 points. K x1
• 8 points. J x1, X x1
• 10 points. Q x1, Z x1

This distribution of letters has not changed since Alfred Butts invented the game in 1938.
The Official Scrabble Player Dictionary and the Collins Scrabble Checker are used to check if a word is allowed.